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Pennsylvania
The year since Election Day 2025
GovBrief tagged 53 stories to Pennsylvania since Election Day 2025. Here are 20 worth remembering, 10 of them from Pennsylvania.
36days until Election Day, Nov. 3In Pennsylvania
10 storiesUnvaccinated 18-year-old dies of measles in Pennsylvania, the state's fourth death, as Gov. Shapiro accuses HHS Secretary Kennedy of ordering CDC not to report them.
RFK denies, cites federal reporting standard
A 40-year-old woman dies of measles complications in Pennsylvania, the state's third death this year in the nation's largest outbreak since 1991.
Under 1% of cases fully vaccinated
Pennsylvania's biggest measles outbreak in 30 years reaches 676 cases, 52 in two days, as CDC still omits state's two deaths from its national tally.
MMR doses nearly doubled in August
Six months after an explosion killed two workers at the nation's largest coke plant, Trump exempted the facility from Biden-era benzene monitoring rules at U.S. Steel's request.
3 fatal accidents since 2009
ICE writes state law "shall not apply" into detention contracts for four states one day after a judge ruled a contract cannot override state oversight.
3,500 detainee complaints, 10 refused inspections
DHS Secretary Mullin threatens state election officials with prison unless they screen voter rolls through a database a federal judge has blocked.
Claims 250,000 non-citizens on voter rolls
National Park Service installs panels overnight at Philadelphia's President's House saying Washington's enslaved staff enjoyed autonomy and theater tickets, replacing exhibits on slavery's brutality.
Woman fined $305 for posting articles
Twenty-five Democratic-led states and Washington sue the Trump administration over Medicaid work rules, arguing the illness exemptions are too narrow to protect the medically frail.
80-hour monthly work mandate starts January
FOIA records show 180+ polluters got Clean Air Act exemptions through email requests with no EPA scientific review.
70 had recent EPA enforcement actions
Federal judge vacates RFK Jr.'s declaration targeting gender-affirming care, ruling HHS exceeded its authority and calling the approach "break it and see."
21 states sued, summary judgment granted
Across the country
6 storiesTrump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial applies for national banking charter, months after Trump pardoned Binance founder whose exchange bought $2 billion in its stablecoin.
Family stablecoin worth $3.4 billion
Commerce Department imposes export controls on Anthropic's two newest AI models, forcing the company to shut them off for all users days after launch.
Verbal evidence of narrow jailbreak
DOJ creates $1.776 billion fund to pay anyone "weaponized" by past administrations as Trump drops his $10 billion IRS suit.
Drawn from federal Judgment Fund
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior's inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
Watchdog seat vacant 18 months
Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto ventures last year, a federal ethics filing shows, locking in profits as ordinary investors lost most of what they paid.
Souvenir coins now $1.68, down from $74
British police arrest five men suspected of preparing a terrorist act near RAF Fairford, the base US bombers use to strike Iran, evacuating 85 homes.
Revolutionary Guard called it "legitimate target"
Fighting back
3 storiesTwenty-four states and 8 cities sue to restore the EPA's endangerment finding, the legal foundation for all U.S. climate regulation since 2009.
Courts uniformly rejected all prior challenges
Federal judge orders Trump administration to restore slavery exhibits removed from President's House in Philadelphia, quoting Orwell and comparing government to "Ministry of Truth."
Bush-appointed judge barred replacement panels
Philadelphia sues National Park Service to restore slavery exhibits removed from President's House, where George Washington brought enslaved people while serving as president.
Panels installed 2010
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